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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Seneca the Younger

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Limit Progress
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

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